In order to register your IRC nickname with the Nickserv
, login to an IRC channel. Here I use a web based client for making this process simple and easy.
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Go to http://webchat.freenode.net.
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Enter the nickname you wanted to register and any irc channel say
#python
and clickconnect
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If it isn't already owned you will see a page with logs and at the bottom you can type messages. This is the status page tab. After a while you will see the
#python
page. -
Click the
status
tab and enter/msg Nickserv REGISTER password email
wherepassword
is the password you want and anemail
to confirm the nickname. Confirmation message will be sent to your email. -
Open your mail and follow the instruction.
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The verification format will be of the form
/msg NickServ VERIFY REGISTER yournickname verificationcode
If you don't want to make your email public then enter /msg nickserv set hidemail on
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To set nick to private mode set /msg nickserv set private on
so that list
command does not show the nick.
Once identified with the server, to change password use /msg nickserv set password $newpass
.
Note that you need to login at least once in 60 days to prevent the username from being inactive.